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Remaking Personhood in a Neurodiverse Age

December 22, 2020by ||| Leave a comment

Twentieth-century neuroscience fixed the brain as the basis of consciousness, the self, identity, individuality, even life itself, obscuring the fundamental relationships between bodies and the worlds that they inhabit. In Unraveling: […]

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Wolf-Meyer

Anthropocene Hubris

November 30, 2020by ||| 1 Comment

Anthropocene Hubris by Stephanie Wakefield source: E-FLUX Precarious Entanglement In the Anthropocene—the current terminal period of neoliberal capitalism marked by climate change, environmental degradation, and social-political unraveling—calls to rethink human […]

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Wakefield

Kim Stanley Robinson, THE MINISTRY FOR THE FUTURE

November 10, 2020by ||| Leave a comment

Philosopher and cultural critic Steven Shaviro reviews Kim Stanley Robinson’s new book: “The Ministry for the Future (2020) is dedicated to Fredric Jameson, and it offers an elegant and effective […]

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Robinson

Non-Philosophy and Speculative Posthumanism

November 5, 2020by ||| 3 Comments

“a biomorphic posthumanism is no longer about the human relation to the future… It is the insurgency of an Outside…” @turingcop [cc: @bognamk]

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Roden

Alien Agency: Material Agency, Art, Experimental Life.

October 31, 2020by dmf 1 Comment

Below is a free-form conversation between world-renowned sociologist of science Andrew Pickering and Chris Salter on the topic of material agency, performance, art and experimental practices within the realm of […]

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Pickering

Non-Philosophy with John Ó Maoilearca

October 27, 2020by ||| Leave a comment

Laruelle’s work navigates an interesting paradox. On the one hand it can be incredibly straightforward, perhaps more so for those who have not been indoctrinated into philosophical thought. On the […]

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Laruelle

Existenzial Inflections

October 7, 2020by ||| 3 Comments

From Simon O’Sullivan: “In relation to an explicit politics, this non-engagement with the affective complexities of life means accelerationism offers only a partial picture of the issues and problems at […]

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doing without knowledge

January 16, 2020by ||| Leave a comment

That ‘knowledge is power’ is rarely disputed by anyone. Literacy has established linguistic semiotics as a dominant coping-capacity and mediator of perception that allows us to plan, control and manipulate […]

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Pickering, Uncategorized

Dispersed Vectors 1

November 7, 2019by ||| Leave a comment

For Gregory Bateson, it is a “pathology of epistemology” (1973) that causes us to overlook our connections to the broader environment, threatening the very existence of humanity and causing the […]

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Bateson, Dean, Deleuze, Guattari

Crisis + Habit = Update

November 6, 2019by ||| Leave a comment

INFRA-STRUCTURE is Politics. ‘New media’—we are told—exist at the bleeding edge of obsolescence. We thus forever try to catch up, updating to remain the same. But what do we miss […]

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Chun

Concepts adequate to the times?

October 29, 2019by ||| Leave a comment

From beautiful mind of Mckenzie Wark: Now that the world most of us have known is ending, it might be time to pay more attention to the experience of those […]

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Latour, Viveiros de Castro, wark

the residual dilemma

October 22, 2019by ||| 2 Comments

To celebrate that which came after Henri Bergson ushering William James out of the delusion of rationalism: Let us leave out the soul, then, and confront what I just called […]

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James

Under the Sign of Erasure

May 24, 2019by ||| Leave a comment

Originally posted on Dr. Rinaldi's Horror Cabinet:
Capitalist realism is about a corrosion of social imagination, and in some ways, that remains the problem: after thirty years of neoliberal…

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Fisher, Hickman

Nefarious Agents: Elliot Abrams

April 16, 2019by Patrick jennings 1 Comment

This is the first in an ongoing series intended to peel back the glossy facade of ideology and intellectual fancy to show the all-to-human faces of agents of power. It’s […]

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The Upside of Accepting Collapse?

April 15, 2019by ||| 1 Comment

The Benefits of Accepting the Possibility of Environmental Collapse and Human Extinction By John Bell British Professor of Sustainability Leadership, Jem Bendell, has recently published a thoughtful review of the […]

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Bendell

Requiem for the Abyss

April 10, 2019by ||| Leave a comment

From the mindings of S.C Hickman: Society—an inferno of saviors! —Emile Cioran No one reads the decadents much anymore, maybe it is because we have moved the world into a […]

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Cioran, Hickman

Dead Subjects: On Heretical Defiance and Fabricated Philosophy

April 1, 2019by Patrick jennings Leave a comment

“What is the difference between a subsumed individual and the human-in-person? Only an axiomatic gesture of heretical defiance…” – Patrick Jennings

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Brassier, Deleuze, Kolozova, Land, Laruelle, Marx, Uncategorized

Patchwork as Real World Vectors

March 26, 2019by ||| 4 Comments

Patchwork as Real World Vectors by Chris Shaw [original source: The Libertarian Ideal] I define patchwork as the adaptation and fragmentation of institutional structures through the processes of exit and voice. […]

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Landscapes of Terminal Capitalism

March 12, 2019by ||| 3 Comments

“Aporias of Responsibility: Lifeworlds Inherited, Inhabited and Bequeathed” The ‘Anthropocene’ captures an emerging recognition, and interest in, the specificity of human geo-social formations; that is, the simultaneous operation of human-created […]

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Hird

Mad Speculations of Becoming

March 7, 2019by ||| 5 Comments

The question remains one of how exactly the hallucinatory activity of cognition can best adapt to the black chaotic assemblages of contemporary forces. Excerpts from Ben Woodard’s “Mad Speculation and […]

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Bataille, Bennett, Deleuze, Gratton, Woodard

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